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Ottawa resident named as lead plaintiff
An Ottawa man who alleges hackers fraudulently charged $8,000 to his credit card is at the centre of a half-billion-dollar lawsuit against a North American retailer that recently reported a massive security breach.
A Toronto law firm announced on Monday that it has started a class-action lawsuit against The Home Depot, Inc., and its Canadian subsidiary as a result of a data breach that affected 56 million people in Canada and the United States.
According to a press release from McPhadden Samac Tuovi LLP, Ottawa resident Steven Lozanski is named as the plaintiff in the suit. However, the firm says the lawsuit is “on behalf of Home Depot customers who used a payment card at Home Depot stores in Canada between April and September 2014.”
Lozanski alleges having $8,000 wrongly charged to his Visa card in early September 2014. The press release says Lozanski used the credit card at a Home Depot store “just days before the fraudulent transactions.”
Lozanski didn’t know something was wrong until his card got denied at a hotel where he was trying to book a room on a recent trip, the release goes on to say.
“He found the experience quite distressing as he knew that his credit card was in good standing,” the release says.
Lozanski is quoted in the release as saying that the Home Depot hasn’t told him how much of his personal information was taken. “I feel I need to do this for myself and for others so that this kind of thing does not happen again,” he says.
In the release, one of Lozanski’s lawyers, Bryan McPhadden, makes reference to the Target breach, which affected an estimated 40 million customers last year, and has cost that retailer hundreds of millions of dollars in system upgrades and compensation claims.
The latest lawsuit, poised at $500 million, aims to have retailers such as the Home Depot engage in “behaviour modification” to prevent future breaches, the release says. It’s the first lawsuit in Ontario to come out against the home repair giant as a result of the breach, the law firm says.
None of the allegations against Home Depot has been tested in court.
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An Ottawa man who alleges hackers fraudulently charged $8,000 to his credit card is at the centre of a half-billion-dollar lawsuit against a North American retailer that recently reported a massive security breach.
A Toronto law firm announced on Monday that it has started a class-action lawsuit against The Home Depot, Inc., and its Canadian subsidiary as a result of a data breach that affected 56 million people in Canada and the United States.
According to a press release from McPhadden Samac Tuovi LLP, Ottawa resident Steven Lozanski is named as the plaintiff in the suit. However, the firm says the lawsuit is “on behalf of Home Depot customers who used a payment card at Home Depot stores in Canada between April and September 2014.”
Lozanski alleges having $8,000 wrongly charged to his Visa card in early September 2014. The press release says Lozanski used the credit card at a Home Depot store “just days before the fraudulent transactions.”
Lozanski didn’t know something was wrong until his card got denied at a hotel where he was trying to book a room on a recent trip, the release goes on to say.
“He found the experience quite distressing as he knew that his credit card was in good standing,” the release says.
Lozanski is quoted in the release as saying that the Home Depot hasn’t told him how much of his personal information was taken. “I feel I need to do this for myself and for others so that this kind of thing does not happen again,” he says.
In the release, one of Lozanski’s lawyers, Bryan McPhadden, makes reference to the Target breach, which affected an estimated 40 million customers last year, and has cost that retailer hundreds of millions of dollars in system upgrades and compensation claims.
The latest lawsuit, poised at $500 million, aims to have retailers such as the Home Depot engage in “behaviour modification” to prevent future breaches, the release says. It’s the first lawsuit in Ontario to come out against the home repair giant as a result of the breach, the law firm says.
None of the allegations against Home Depot has been tested in court.
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